Boris

Charity leader | Youth rugby coach & junior girls lead 🏉 | Passionate about social & climate justice ✊🏽 🌎 | Ally 🏳️‍🌈 | Excitable 🐯 | Kind 🤗

[Boris @borispomroy]

@lucyjaynewhite1 Sorry to correct you again, but almost no democracies ban those born in another country from standing for office in the legislature. 14% of MPs and 6% of Peers from minority ethnic backgrounds (c. to 16% in wider public).

Your views are your views. But facts are facts.

[Boris @borispomroy]

@lucyjaynewhite1 Not for nothing, but Aristotle didn't say those words. They were said by Guillaume Faye, a French far‑right political theorist, in the 1970s, who then attributed them to Aristotle.

[Boris @borispomroy]

Religion isn't my bag -but frankly, I find it remarkable and worthy of celebration, that people show such commitment to their faith in the 21st century. Fair play to them.

[StarmerOut @ForeverScept]

Why do they have subsidised mosques if they dont use them?

Starting to see why China and India tears them down

[Boris @borispomroy]

@Suffragent_ It's a fundraising call to action for a highly respected charity, who have saved countless lives around the world - and worked in flood affected areas here in the UK. It's in London because we have a decent amount of Muslims, who are all committed to giving 'Zakat'.

[Boris @borispomroy]

@BGatesIsaPyscho Live shootings are not becoming more frequent. Gun related crime has dropped by over a third in the last five years. Death by shooting continues to be vanishingly small.

[Boris @borispomroy]

@London_W4 Islamic Relief are a highly respected charity Alastair. They've been on the ground offering life-saving support in Nigeria after the floods there, across East Africa during drought and here in the UK (Cumbria flooding, Grenfall to name but two).

[Boris @borispomroy]

This such an insane take.

US has a murder rate almost 5x that of the UK.

Last year, the US had more mass shooting EVENTS than we had total murders.

[Boris @borispomroy]

@sophielouisecc This was Tory legislation and then also part of Labour manifesto. It is not dictating, it’s democracy in action.

[Boris @borispomroy]

@eleonorasfalcon @tomhfh But the quote I was responding to was ‘Nobody voted for this’ - and also, that’s not really how democracy works?

[Boris @borispomroy]

@Coven_West @TRobinsonNewEra I’m not telling you to do anything. I’m asking that you don’t throw every Muslim under the bus. Radical Islam is as offensive to most Muslims, as the KKK or Nazism are to most Christians. Hate the ideology by all means, but it isn’t the wider Islamic faith.

[India Willoughby @IndiaWilloughby]

Zack Polanski thanks his boyfriend, who works in a hospice. Says “kindness and compassion” are the most patriot things we have. #GreenPartyConference @TheGreenParty 💚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[Boris @borispomroy]

@finite_planet @TRobinsonNewEra I don’t think it’s whataboutery (or at least I don’t intend it to be). More it’s a reality of scripture that some of it promotes hatred and violence. My point is the one you make - both are foul.

[Boris @borispomroy]

@finite_planet @TRobinsonNewEra Lots of Bible text does too. A number of those quotes were specifically targeted against Jews.

[Boris @borispomroy]

"Masculine Christianity" - Goodness.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

Their churches will stay empty, a Christian revival will grow on the streets. Masculine christiany is coming not this weak drivel

[Boris @borispomroy]

@kelvmackenzie Here are 5 Panorama's on the subject, based on a 30sec search.

British Schools, Islamic Rules
Muslim First, British Second
From Jail to Jihad?
The Battle for British Islam
How I Became a Muslim Extremist

BBC is a jewel in the UK crown.

[Boris @borispomroy]

@Danjsalt I don't know how old you are, but the idea that violence and hatred is solely owned by Muslims is just false. I remember Dunblane, Hungerford, Tim McVey, Jo Cox. For most of last 500yrs Jews have had to be more afraid of Christians than Muslims. Hatred doesn't belong to one group

[Boris @borispomroy]

@London_W4 The British far right have a long anti-semitic tradition, inc violence. As for Churchill in the 1930's he argued Jews themselves were "partly responsible for the antagonism from which they suffer".

Anti-semitism is a stain onsociety - but it doesn't start and stop with Muslims.